Facility Support

Facility Support

Facilities includes considerations necessary to establish:

•  Permanent and semi-permanent capital works
•  Associated machinery and
•  Plant to operate and support a materiel system throughout its life cycle

In Service Facility management includes:

•  Ongoing capital works (LOT of capability)
•  Training, storage and maintenance facilities
•  Facilities upgrades
•  Forecasting and scheduling resources and construction

Facilities support consists of Garaging Arrangements, Workshop Facilities, Operational Support Facilities and Training Facilities:

• Garaging Arrangements. Vehicles may be garaged in extant vehicle hangar facilities. These generally consist of protection from rain and shade and may include open mesh cages for equipment storage and standard 240v power.
  Other locations may utilise vehicle hangars. Garaging for vehicles whilst deployed may be non-existent or ad-hoc.
• Workshop Facilities. Workshop facilities may be of various designs and ages. The facility generally has the tooling and sufficient fixed and portable MHE to support vehicles of similar size, not including S&TE.
• Operational Support Facilities. Whilst not deployed, vehicles will generally have access to fuel and oil in operational support facilities.
• Training Facilities. Training facilities may include classrooms and practical practise areas. Classrooms may be affected should large or operational training aids be required. This would be examined following identification of the need for the specific aid.